STARLOG:  How would you describe your role in The Last Crusade?
RIVER PHOENIX.  It’s all non-stop action: running and jumping, twisting and turning, fumbling, picking, finding, keeping, saving from bad guys-that kind of stuff.  It’s a small part-only 10 minutes in the movie’s beginning-but I really enjoyed it.

STARLOG:  What was the special challenge of doing this movie?
PHOENIX:  I did a lot of the stunts because I felt so much of the character and what he had to do was physical.  It would have been lying to have someone else do the stunts.

                                                                        STARLOG October 1989